PR# 17427 EiffelBuild offers non-existant "text_change_actions" option

Problem Report Summary

Submitter: djenkins99

Category: EiffelBuild

Priority: Medium

Date: 2011/03/19

Class: Bug

Severity: Serious

Number: 17427

Release: 6.7

Confidential: No

Status: Closed

Responsible:

Environment: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.9.2.15) Gecko/20110303 Ubuntu/10.04 (lucid) Firefox/3.6.15

Synopsis: EiffelBuild offers non-existant "text_change_actions" option

Description

EiffelBuild includes a "text_change_actions" option in the list of possible events for an EV_TEXT_FIELD. It dutifully creates a call to "text_change_actions.extend" in the generated code. But there is no "text_change_actions" feature in EV_TEXT_FIELD, so when compiled the generated code throws a VEEN error.

To Reproduce

1. Add an EV_TEXT_FIELD to an EiffelBuild window.
2. Select the TEXT_FIELD in the layout constructor and click "Select events" in the object editor.
3. Click "text_change_actions" in the Event Selection dialog.
4. Close dialog; save and generate code.
5. Compile in EiffelStudio.

I haven't checked whether this works in Windows (i.e., either "text_change_actions" is a feature of EV_TEXT_FIELD, or the option is not available in EiffelBuild). It's definitely broken though for Linux.

Problem Report Interactions

From:manus_eiffel Date:2011/04/02 Status: Closed Download

This issue is now fixed in rev#86111 for the 6.8 release.

From:manus_eiffel Date:2011/03/19 Status: Analyzed Download

`text_select_actions' are only for EV_SPIN_BUTTON and should not have appeared for an EV_TEXT_FIELD. For the time being, only select the `change_actions' and leave the `text_change_actions' unchecked.

This issue will be fixed for the final 6.8 release.